They turn and face death at the hands of a mob like Joe Christmas does in the novel, "Light in August."
VOA: special.2010.01.10
A Christmas tree, in other words, is a sign that can only be understood intelligibly in terms of a certain cultural understanding.
也就是说,它仅仅用于,也仅仅在一定的文化背景中,才能有意义,被理解。
And I met Bill Clinton. He goes there every year in December for Christmas and buys Swarovski.
我也见过比尔•克林顿。他每年12月都会去那儿做圣诞采购,还会买施华洛世奇水晶。
Public schools in the United States have to be neutral about religion, even though they close for holidays like Christmas.
VOA: special.2009.12.24
Think back to a movie's that's on TBS, ad nauseam, in December called Christmas Story.
回想一下12月在TBS电视台上的一个电影,令人作呕的,叫做《圣诞节故事》
"Not everyone is Christian. But I would hope that most people who celebrate Christmas in any form understand its origins.
VOA: special.2009.12.21
Those are two Christmas carols that are very conjunct in nature.
这两段是圣诞颂歌,本质都是级进
They are a black man named Joe Christmas, and a former minister,John Hightower, who has lost his belief in God.
VOA: special.2010.01.10
Once you get that, once you get the value, "Christmas tree," as opposed to "red lights," "red lights" being perhaps a part of some Christmas trees, then you see that you're back in a semiotic system and a very obvious one, because a Christmas tree is a not-menorah, not-Kwanzaa candles.
一旦认识到这点,红灯,指的其实是圣诞树“,红灯是圣诞树的一部分,那么你会发现你回到了符号学的解释中,圣诞树不用于犹太教或者非洲人的节日。
It is very nice,you know?" The Cerqueiras say many Christmas traditions are the same in Portugal and America.
VOA: special.2010.12.20
and going to get the Christmas tree was always really a big deal in my house.
装饰圣诞树一直是我们家的一件非常重要的事情。
After Christmas, black families in the United States might also celebrate Kwanzaa, which means "first fruits" in Swahili.
VOA: special.2009.12.21
And then you know, I just had to watch "The Nightmare Before Christmas" by myself in my apartment and called it a day, so.
然后我只得一个人在公寓看《圣诞夜惊魂》。一天就过去了。
However,in "Christmas at Sea" Sting takes a haunting Robert Louis Stevenson poem and sets it to music.
VOA: special.2009.12.25
Like before Christmas, I had to go up to everybody in Union Square
比如说,在圣诞节之前,我得走向在联合广场的每一个人,
Then in preparing for the show, one of the children tells about the true meaning of Christmas.
VOA: special.2009.10.25
for my mom for Christmas one winter. It's in her room now.
某年冬天给我妈妈买的圣诞礼物。现在还在她的房间。
Some still do. But there was a true Christmas train -- a passenger train that began service in South Carolina on December twenty-fifth,eighteen thirty.
VOA: special.2010.12.20
But it's kind of, it's in all the movies, like Christmas movies, like the movie "Big",
但它几乎出现在所有电影中,比如说圣诞节体裁的电影,像电影 "Big”,
In this story Doctor Seuss gives the message that Christmas is about more than receiving gifts.
VOA: special.2010.05.02
He steals all the Christmas gifts and food in the village while everyone is sleeping.
VOA: special.2010.05.02
Their voices do all the work. Straight No Chaser released "Christmas Cheers" in November.
VOA: special.2009.12.25
"Last year,one of our staff members actually brought his own guitar and amplifier and led us in several rounds of song, Christmas songs and holiday songs.
VOA: special.2010.12.20
And instead a little girl came along in December, oh,about a week before Christmas.
VOA: special.2009.12.21
In it,Charlie Brown has to choose a Christmas tree for a special Christmas program.
VOA: special.2009.10.25
He was describing the child Tiny Tim in the book "A Christmas Carol."
VOA: special.2010.06.06
Also for charity is another release in the "Very Special Christmas" series.
VOA: special.2009.12.25
He tries to stop Christmas from arriving in a village called Whoville.
VOA: special.2010.05.02
Irving Berlin thought so,too. He wrote "White Christmas" in nineteen thirty-nine.
VOA: special.2009.12.20
An evergreen tree is a Christmas tradition in many American homes.
VOA: special.2010.12.21
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